01-31-2006, 12:03 PM
is nehru was a nationalist then kapil dev was an arab.
iit's came thanks to a parsee gentleman's foresight, not nehru. read the book "the iit-ians"
atomic energy and related stuff was solely the brainchild of another parsee called homi jahangir bhaba and then the tatas.
if he had a hand in the iim's i dont know.
NPL was copied from BPL of england. Sp mukherjee and Bhatnagar had a greater hand in the formation of CSIR labs than nehru and A.P.Mitra was the guy who really helped the CSIR labs to "arrive". ISRO had more to do with SArabhai and Dhaven than nehru.
amongst negetives is also the china war, which he lagao-ed.
india's love affair with the soviet union, which was his payback to stalin for services rendered in the netaji disappearence.
another negative is his habit of assigning key positions in the parliament and ministry to all his relatives. nephews, cousins, mamas and bhanjas all got their share of the indian pie. in this he was almost tribal in mentality - cos tribals are very clanninsh and they trust most in themselves, then their brother, then their extended family and finally the clan.
to this day there are nehruvian copycats all over india - who after securing their seats hand out prize postings to kith and kin and their own chair is of course reserved for their son. navin patnaik, deve gowda's son, the "young turks" of the congress (god i hate the party) and the udhav thakereys et al.
iit's came thanks to a parsee gentleman's foresight, not nehru. read the book "the iit-ians"
atomic energy and related stuff was solely the brainchild of another parsee called homi jahangir bhaba and then the tatas.
if he had a hand in the iim's i dont know.
NPL was copied from BPL of england. Sp mukherjee and Bhatnagar had a greater hand in the formation of CSIR labs than nehru and A.P.Mitra was the guy who really helped the CSIR labs to "arrive". ISRO had more to do with SArabhai and Dhaven than nehru.
amongst negetives is also the china war, which he lagao-ed.
india's love affair with the soviet union, which was his payback to stalin for services rendered in the netaji disappearence.
another negative is his habit of assigning key positions in the parliament and ministry to all his relatives. nephews, cousins, mamas and bhanjas all got their share of the indian pie. in this he was almost tribal in mentality - cos tribals are very clanninsh and they trust most in themselves, then their brother, then their extended family and finally the clan.
to this day there are nehruvian copycats all over india - who after securing their seats hand out prize postings to kith and kin and their own chair is of course reserved for their son. navin patnaik, deve gowda's son, the "young turks" of the congress (god i hate the party) and the udhav thakereys et al.